The unachievable nature of economic equality is a feature, not a bug, of the Left’s obsession with it. Market-based inequality is not problematic, but government-created inequality is. The only way…
We live in a world where data privacy is so important because of how many devices collect individual data. There is probably no more important area for data privacy than…
David French of National Review Online responds to the argument that the United States has become too big to govern effectively from Washington, D.C. How is the continued consolidation of…
This article from FreedomWorks is an interesting perspective on Common Core and freedom generally. Here is an excerpt: We all truly believed in Mao and Communism because we were completely…
Peter Coy‘s Bloomberg Businessweek article about this week’s scheduled referendum on Scottish independence features some interesting observations. First, one need not have a written constitution based on the concept of…
Even with the organic and grassroots, there is a tendency to centralize control.
Professor Richard Ebeling’s new essay examines the continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek’s 1944 book The Road to Serfdom. The Obama Regime reminds us day in and day out about Hayek’s…
Not long ago I pointed out a rather glaring flaw in President Obama’s notion that he is building an “iPod government” through fiat: We like our iPods ultimately because it’s…
Senate Bill 127 could defund AdvantageWest. AW is a public/private partnership that incents so-called economic development. The smelly flipside is that AW and three other organizations in the same boat…
The latest edition of Max Borders‘ Ideas Matter update includes an item featuring Southern Methodist University economist Robert Lawson. He puts complaints about the “1 percent” in proper perspective. If…
Here is Cafe Hayek’s quotation of the day: is from page 87 of Vol. 1 of the 1980 Knopf edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: But I am…
In an excerpt from his new book, Mark Steyn‘s latest column posted at Human Events discusses the downside of an increased reliance on the federal government to solve America’s problems.…